Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back home," says Cafe Filho, "I got fine offers from companies seeking congressional favors or government contracts. I did not think it was right to accept...
...they are paying me peanuts. There is a huge power vacuum in this place. A smart guy could just walk in and take over." As for The Great Impostor, the movie that Universal International plans to produce from the bestseller about his life, Demara complained that he got only $4,000 ("I've been had"), and that Tony Curtis was completely miscast in the hero's role. Hollywood, which has always instinctively taken impostors to its heart, loved Demara's bluster. Even stone-faced assistant directors had to smile when the world's most successful character...
...most improbably successful tunesmith in the U.S. last week was a genial, buckskin-fringed character out of Timbo, Ark. (pop. 100) named Jimmie Driftwood. Six Driftwood royalty-winners-Soldier's Joy, Battle of Kookamonga, Tennessee Stud, Sal's Got a Sugar Lip, The Battle of New Orleans, Sailor Man-were riding the sales charts of pop or country-and-western tunes; in other versions most of them are sung and strummed by Driftwood himself...
...skin. His most recent inspiration came to him via a radio newscast while he was touring the Ozarks in his air-conditioned Buick one hot day this summer. Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, he heard, would soon be a visitor to the U.S. Jimmie began to sing, his wife Cleda got out paper and pencil, and three weeks later RCA Victor was pressing 100,000 copies of The Bear Flew Over the Ocean. Sample lyrics...
...room and Caltech-about twelve miles. He said: 'Your guess is as good as mine as to the source of these bills.' " Arnold, who is now a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada, still will not or cannot say where he got J.P.L.'s founding money...